Quotes by Robert Winston

Robert Winston

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

Eggs

Ovaries

Teens

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework – and enforcing it – we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

Intuition

Might

Moral

Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of “experiments” banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

Animal

Humility

Pain

Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer. Of course, the study of stem cells is one of the most exciting areas in biology, but I think it is unlikely that embryonic stem cells are likely to be useful in healthcare for a long time.

Britain And America

Cells

Thinking

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

Discovering

Mind

True Potential

Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn’t go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.

Phases

Three

Usual

Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.

Bullying

Children

Cities

Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?

Childhood

Children

Hunters

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

Medicine

Taught

Thinking

Following 25 children for the TV series ‘Child of Our Time’ has been extraordinary. The BBC’s original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000.

Children

Giving

Numbers

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Accepted

Achievement

Age

Ambition

Animal

Baby

Believe

Biblical

Brain

Britain And America

Bullying

Butterfly

Cancer

Cds

Cells

Challenges

Childhood

Children

Church

Cities

Claims

Class

Climate

Common Purpose

Communication

Concerned

Country

Cutting

Design

Detectives

Different

Disappointment

Discovering

Doctors

Doe

Drs

East London

Eggs

Engineering

Example

Faces

Father

Feelings

Feet

Firsts

Genes

Giving

Hate

Hatred

Heart

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Quotes by Robert Winston

Robert Winston

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework – and enforcing it – we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.

Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

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